West Bridgewater Public Schools

WB District Newsletter - Here is the latest Wildcat PRIDE newsletter https://www.smore.com/jh6pw-wildcat-pride There is lots of information including FY24 Budget information and many pictures.

FY24 School Committee Budget Information - Here is a link to information pertaining to the district's proposed FY24 Budget https://www.wbridgewaterschools.org/article/1029273 There is a link to the March 6th School Committee Presentation and there is also a link to the FY24 Budget Book. This is a new document created this year. It is a 26-page document that provides valuable information for all to review. 

ATHLETIC BOOSTERS MEETING Wednesday, March, 15th @ 7 PM PLEASE JOIN US We changed this meeting from 3/8 due to the Boys Basketball game in Randolph WBMSHS - LIBRARY Come join the discussion- all parents/guardians are welcome! Questions? Email us @ wbboostersclub@gmail.com

Tourney Schedule below! Thursday, 3/2 **Boys Basketball HOME 5:00PM- Staff and families receive free admission or wear your BENCH T-SHIRT and you receive FREE Admission to the game as well! **Boys Ice Hockey @ Rockland Ice Arena 8:00PM Friday, 3/3: **Girls Basketball @ Case 6:30PM; ticket info below: https://gofan.co/app/school/MA22185 ; you can also purchase tickets at the door Saturday, 3/4: **BR/WB Gymnastics State Championship Meet @ Algonquin Reg. HS 2:00PM **Indoor Track New Englands @ Reggie Lewis 10:30 AM. Good Luck to Aly Bassett who is competing in the 55 Hurdles and Ella Dunbury is competing in the 2 mile! Saturday, March 11 ** Indoor Track Nationals @ New Balance Track Boston 11:00AM We wish Lasadia Gurley, Hannah Smith, Ava Xyavong and Aly Bassett good luck as they will be competing in the 4 X 55M Hurdle relay at this meet! Good luck to all of our teams!!

Check out the Spring Sports Apparel Stores! Softball https://wbsoftball2023.itemorder.com/ Baseball https://wbbaseball2023.itemorder.com/ Track https://wbtrackspring23.itemorder.com/ Tennis https://wbtennis2023.itemorder.com/

WB District Newsletter - I hope you are having a wonderful February Break and we look forward to welcoming everyone back to school next week. Here is the latest district newsletter Wildcat PRIDE https://www.smore.com/shg9a

WB Families - Here is the latest WB District Newsletter Wildcat PRIDE https://www.smore.com/4s0fn Have a great weekend!

The next Superintendent Coffee Hour will be on Friday, February 10th at 9:15 am at the Howard School (70 Howard Street). If you are attending please have your ID available so you can be checked in at the main office. An email was sent to all families with a draft agenda.

Message from WB Athletic Boosters - The Next ATHLETIC BOOSTERS MEETING will be on Wednesday February, 8th @ 7 PM. PLEASE JOIN US in the WBMSHS - LIBRARY Come join the discussion- all parents/guardians are welcome! Questions? Email us @ wbboostersclub@gmail.com GO WILDCATS!

The following message was sent to all WB Families and voice message sent to RLM Families: Good afternoon Rose L MacDonald Families, We wanted to you know that we did have some issues over the weekend at the school with loss of power and tree damage that took down some wires. The power has been restored to the building. Unfortunately, the phone lines and internet will not be fixed until tomorrow morning. We want to thank our maintenance and custodial staff and all who helped over the weekend to get the school ready for Monday. If you need to contact the school please call 508-894-1242. This number is for the RLM main office. If for any reason you cannot get through you can call the Spring Street School at 508-894-1230. We hope that we will be fully operational and back to normal later in the morning. All schools in the district will be open at the regularly scheduled time tomorrow. Thank you and have a great night. Mark Bodwell Superintendent West Bridgewater Public Schools

Notice to WB Families (this was also sent to all WB Families via email last night) - As you are aware we are going to be experiencing some very cold temperatures over the next few days. The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Chill Warning from February 3rd 10 am through February 4th 10 am. Students should be dressed appropriately for the weather. The schools are open today. If parents/guardians of walkers have concerns about their child walking home today (February 3rd) please contact your child's school this morning. We will work with the family and Lucini Bus Company to arrange transportation if possible. As always the safety of our students and staff is our top priority.

Here is a link to the WB Wildcat PRIDE district newsletter. There is lots of important information in the newsletter and lots of great pictures of our students. I hope you can find some time to check it out. https://www.smore.com/8stw0

The West Bridgewater Schools are actively looking for substitute teachers. If you are interested please fill out the google form. https://www.wbridgewaterschools.org/o/ms-middle-senior-hs/article/940959

All phone lines at the schools are fully operational.

WB District Phone Lines - We wanted to let you know that we are having issues with our network and starting around 11 am our network will be down. This will affect the phone lines in the schools. Schools will remain open during this time. If you need to call the schools please call the following numbers: Spring Street School 508-894-1232 Rose L MacDonald School 508-894-1242 Howard School 508-894-1253 MSHS 508-897-0537 Thank you for your patience and understanding. We will send out another message when we are fully operational.

Zumba Fundraiser - Check out the WB Athletic Boosters fundraiser. Start the year off with a healthy mindset, support the student-athletes and have fun while doing it!

Here is the latest WB District Newsletter "Wildcat PRIDE". We hope you can find some time to check it out as there is lots of great information about things going on in the district and lots of pictures of our students. Happy Friday! https://www.smore.com/96z85

From SRO Pope - Online presentation "Keeping Kids Safe and Secure Online: A Project Safe Childhood Presentation for Parents" brought to you in collaboration by the US Attorneys Office and Homeland Security Investigations - Wednesday, January 18th at 6:30pm Check out the flyer

School Choice applications are now being accepted for the 23-24 school year. All Applications must be electronically submitted by 12:00 noon on February 28, 2023. Check out this link for more information https://www.wbridgewaterschools.org/page/school-choice-program

Reminder - The next Superintendent Coffee Hour meeting with Mr. Bodwell will be on Friday, January 13th at 9:15 at the Middle/Senior High School. An email was sent to all WB families with a tentative draft agenda. MSHS Counselors will be the guests at this months meeting.